1 Not only did the romantic aura of the dashing blockader hang about him but there was also the titillating element of the wicked and the forbidden.
2 Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred.
3 Lily was in her element on such occasions.
4 To Lily this attitude was the most ominous, because the most perplexing, element in the situation.
5 These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.
6 Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
7 But, doubtless, this noble savage fed strong and drank deep of the abounding element of air; and through his dilated nostrils snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds.
8 Most of them walked into the water as though into a native element.
9 Grandmother Majauszkiene had lived in the midst of misfortune so long that it had come to be her element, and she talked about starvation, sickness, and death as other people might about weddings and holidays.
10 Some ran furiously to the water's edge, beating the air with frantic gestures, while others spat upon the element, to resent the supposed treason it had committed against their acknowledged rights as conquerors.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 11 The fiercer element had cropped the verdure of the plain, which looked as though it were scathed by the consuming lightning.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 12 Bad as all slaveholders are, we seldom meet one destitute of every element of character commanding respect.
13 The leading trait in his character was meanness; and if there were any other element in his nature, it was made subject to this.
14 Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 15 By the side of this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social symptom.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES